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Whistlejacket is a Brand, Design and Communications Agency from the UK. They commissioned me to create illustrations and iconography, and build an interactive digital handbook for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Former Jets, Ravens LB C.J. Mosley retires https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…

He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it.
Humans — not AI systems — should be the ones with agency, says the godfather of AI.

Colts' Alec Pierce stunned as NFL's most explosive WR in 2024, looks to level up on precipice of free agency

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

Los Angeles Dodgers say they denied ICE agents entry to Dodger Stadium;
Baseball team says ICE agents were denied permission to access parking lots but agency claims agents ‘were never there’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/ice-agents…

Kari Lake says termination notices were sent to 639 employees at USAGM and VOA, and that only 250 employees now remain across USAGM, VOA, and OCB (Kari Lake/@karilake)
https://x.com/karilake/status/1936085141589500195

Kari Lake (@KariLake) on X
Trump Admin Senior Advisor @KariLake announces mass terminations at US Agency for Global Media⤵️ “USAGM now operates near the statutory minimum; lean and focused. This is a clear example of responsible government—cutting waste, restoring accountability, and delivering on the

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite #Gold project in Idaho | mining.com | #geology #antimony

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite Gold project in Idaho 
The decision comes after eight years of rigorous inter-agency federal permitting, and was the last federal permit required to progress towards construction. 

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag,
a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters,
was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to…

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Chalk up another big win for the #Windows and #Instagram folks! Bombing innocents is the only way to be truly social!
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/israels-spy-agency-used-ai-and-smuggled-in-drones-to-prepare-attack-on-iran/article_ce2d0fbc-ae83-5266-af3f-e1cf35feface.html
see also
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9

Far-Right 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to-heaven-flag-sba-government-agency-dc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p157#a250617p157

Tom Brady played a part in Raiders avoiding top free-agent quarterback https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-played-part-raiders-avoiding-top-free-agent-q…

Trump is Destroying Our Oldest Science Agency
#NowWatching

On 17 June the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, #LISA: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA/Construction_of_ESA_s_ambitious_LISA_mission_begins - a bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves.

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

@… In case you haven't seen the news about the Chemical Safety Review Board.
https://mastodon.social/@hmelman/114695207463426975…

North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency
https://www.dw.com/en/is-north-korea-boosting-its-nuclear-capabilities/a-7295378…

Is North Korea boosting its nuclear capabilities?
North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/cisas-executive-director-leaving-agency/405981/
CISA’s executive director is leaving the agency

CISA’s executive director is leaving the agency
Bridget Bean had been with CISA for over three years, during which time she also briefly served as the acting director of the cyber agency.

"Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA"
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Energy

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA
Global oil demand will fall slightly in 2030, its first drop since the 2020 COVID pandemic, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

Denmark's Agency for Digital Government has announced plans to phase out Microsoft software across its offices in favour of open source alternatives, joining a growing European movement challenging the dominance of American tech giants.
https://www.co…

Denmark to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives
German state of Schleswig-Holstein also turns its back on Microsoft as Europeans fear being ‘blackmailed’ by Big Tech

Design an Editable Speech-to-Sign-Language Transformer System: A Human-Centered AI Approach
Yingchao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14677 https://

Design an Editable Speech-to-Sign-Language Transformer System: A Human-Centered AI Approach
This paper presents a human-centered, real-time, user-adaptive speech-to-sign language animation system that integrates Transformer-based motion generation with a transparent, user-editable JSON intermediate layer. The framework overcomes key limitations in prior sign language technologies by enabling direct user inspection and modification of sign segments, thus enhancing naturalness, expressiveness, and user agency. Leveraging a streaming Conformer encoder and autoregressive Transformer-MDN d…

So after wrapping up the #Wiki theme for my #Markdown -based (not)CMS (https://…

#Yorkshire ist offiziell von einer #Dürre betroffen. Nach einem extrem trockenen Frühling mit teils nur 40 % des üblichen Regens sind Flüsse und #Grundwasser stark abgesunken.
Auch die

Drought declared in Yorkshire after extremely dry spring
The UK has seen one of the driest springs on record this year

I was hired by the Brand, Design and Communications Agency Whistlejacket to produce illustrations for the WRAP "nudging strategy for reducing consumption of single-use disposable cups" in collab with the Swedish EPA.
#illustration #design #sustainability #coffee

Get on the Train or be Left on the Station: Using LLMs for Software Engineering Research
Bianca Trinkenreich, Fabio Calefato, Geir Hanssen, Kelly Blincoe, Marcos Kalinowski, Mauro Pezz\`e, Paolo Tell, Margaret-Anne Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12691

Get on the Train or be Left on the Station: Using LLMs for Software Engineering Research
The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) is not only transforming software engineering (SE) practice but is also poised to fundamentally disrupt how research is conducted in the field. While perspectives on this transformation range from viewing LLMs as mere productivity tools to considering them revolutionary forces, we argue that the SE research community must proactively engage with and shape the integration of LLMs into research practices, emphasizing human agency in this transformation…

Former $61 million 4-time All-Pro could land with Raiders in free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-61-million-4-time-all-pro-could-land-raiders-fre…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan https://theconversation.com/6-ways-ai-can-partner-with-us-in-creative-inquiry-inspired-by-media-theorist-marsha…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
By engaging consciously with technology, students learn to use AI critically and creatively — without surrendering their agency.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence

The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-axes-biden-era-proposed-rules-o…

SAS in ESA Datalabs: A New Platform for XMM-Newton Analysis
Esin G. Gulbahar, Camille M. Diez, Aitor Ibarra, Ivan Valtchanov, Richard Saxton, Ignacio de la Calle Perez, Jose Lopez-Miralles, Alejandro Gonzalez Ganzabal, Peter Kretschmar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14444

SAS in ESA Datalabs: A New Platform for XMM-Newton Analysis
XMM-Newton is a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) for X-ray astronomy, providing high-quality X-ray data for astrophysical research since the start of the century. Its Science Analysis System (SAS) has been a reliable data reduction and analysis software, evolving throughout the years to meet changing user needs, while incorporating new methods. This paper presents the XMM-SAS Datalab, a tool within the cloud-based ESA Datalabs platform, designed to enhance the interactivit…

NIH scientists air deep concerns about agency policies and cuts:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/nih-scientists-air-deep-concerns-about-agency-policies-and-cuts

Agency: Veteran OT Humphries signs with Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45502018/dj-humphries-signs-rams-agency-says

Arabic news channel Alhurra has replaced its programming with an image accusing the USAGM of illegally withholding Congress-approved funding for its parent MBN (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/alhurra-calls-out-usagm-funding-cuts/

Alhurra calls out U.S. Agency for Global Media over funding cuts
The Arabic-language satellite TV channel said the federal agency is "illegally withholding" Congressionally-approved funds for its broadcast operations.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09030 has been replaced.
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Authoritarian Recursions: How Fiction, History, and AI Reinforce Control in Education, Warfare, and Discourse
This article develops the concept of authoritarian recursion to theorize how artificial intelligence (AI) systems consolidate institutional control across education, military operations, and digital discourse. Rather than treating these domains in isolation, it identifies a shared recursive architecture in which algorithmic systems mediate judgment, obscure accountability, and reshape the conditions of moral and epistemic agency. Grounded in critical discourse analysis and sociotechnical ethi…

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.
Hundreds of laid-off CDC employees are being reinstated https://ground.news/article/hundreds-of-laid-off-cdc-employees-are-being-reinstated

2025 NFL free agency tracker: Broncos add ex-Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

Just finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.

RFK Jr.’s chronic disease agency would eliminate or reduce funding for some prevention programs | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/07/rfk-jr-administration-for-healthy-america-chronic-disease-budget-documents/?utm_campaign=rss

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sentinel-florida-desantis-welfare-9636452a8bf8eb230489513db64d86f7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p104#a250609p104

Then X should become a public entity https://flipboard.com/@wired/elon-musk-s-twitter-q6o95242z/-/a-XwaFrjs9SDm2VZ25O9RYsg:a:3199480-/0

Electricity supply emerges as prime cyber attack target – German security agency. Decentralized renewables are not always an advantage here: "Smaller power plants like wind turbines are often less well protected against attackers than large power plants.”
https://www.

Electricity supply emerges as prime cyber attack target – German security agency

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01651 has been replaced.
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Human-AI Governance (HAIG): A Trust-Utility Approach
This paper introduces the HAIG framework for analysing trust dynamics across evolving human-AI relationships. Current categorical frameworks (e.g., "human-in-the-loop" models) inadequately capture how AI systems evolve from tools to partners, particularly as foundation models demonstrate emergent capabilities and multi-agent systems exhibit autonomous goal-setting behaviours. As systems advance, agency redistributes in complex patterns that are better represented as positions along continua rat…

Should the Raiders Pursue Former Divisional Rival? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-denver-broncos-justin-simmons

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-budget-135m-dhs-2026-house-appropriations/

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 has been replaced.
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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Cybernetic Marionette: Channeling Collective Agency Through a Wearable Robot in a Live Dancer-Robot Duet
Anup Sathya, Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Adriane Fang, Bill Kules, Jonathan David Martin, Huaishu Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10079

Cybernetic Marionette: Channeling Collective Agency Through a Wearable Robot in a Live Dancer-Robot Duet
We describe DANCE^2, an interactive dance performance in which audience members channel their collective agency into a dancer-robot duet by voting on the behavior of a wearable robot affixed to the dancer's body. At key moments during the performance, the audience is invited to either continue the choreography or override it, shaping the unfolding interaction through real-time collective input. While post-performance surveys revealed that participants felt their choices meaningfully influenced …

UK appoints first-ever female chief of foreign intelligence service MI6 https://therecord.media/blaise-metreweli-new-mi6-chief

Richardson is a former Marine artillery officer... he has no prior experience in disaster response.
☑️ David Richardson: FEMA head told staff he was previously unaware US has a hurricane season | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/da

FEMA head told staff he was previously unaware US has a hurricane season
Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were caught off-guard and left bewildered when the disaster relief agency’s new acting head David Richardson told personnel that he was previously unaware that the United States has a hurricane season, which started Sunday.

2025 NFL free agency: Free agents, notable departures for all 32 teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-free-agency-free-agents-notable-departures-for-all-32-teams

New study finds glyphosate unsafe at any dose.
Glyphosate is widely on sale in garden centres and DiY shops, including B&Q.
Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats | Environmental Health | Full Text
https://

Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats - Environmental Health
Background Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the world’s most widely used weed control agents. Public health concerns have increased since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. To further investigate the health effects of glyphosate and GBHs, the Ramazzini Institute launched the Global Glyphosate Study (GGS), which is designed to test a wide range of toxicological outcomes. Reported here are the results of the…

Social Security Chief Says Musk's DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency's Plans (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/social-security-chief-says-musks-doge-figures-heavily-in-agencys-plans-45cc0f35
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p72#a250609p72

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06418 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Open High-Resolution Satellite Imagery: The WorldStrat Dataset -- With Application to Super-Resolution
Analyzing the planet at scale with satellite imagery and machine learning is a dream that has been constantly hindered by the cost of difficult-to-access highly-representative high-resolution imagery. To remediate this, we introduce here the WorldStrat dataset. The largest and most varied such publicly available dataset, at Airbus SPOT 6/7 satellites' high resolution of up to 1.5 m/pixel, empowered by European Space Agency's Phi-Lab as part of the ESA-funded QueryPlanet project, we curate nearl…

How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business, as its stock falls 50% in seven years; its WPP Open platform has 50K users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d1d939c-23e3-491f-9a5e-58532fdc82cb…

WPP races to harness AI before the technology kills its business
Chief executive Mark Read pushed to adopt artificial intelligence but is set to exit with the share price languishing

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies over data integrity issue
(*CRO misconduct issue)
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/04/04/fda-research-cro-raptim-india-data/

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies run by a contract research firm due to data integrity issues
Citing "objectionable conditions," the agency said there were problems with the way Raptim Research tested medicines in India.

Trump proposes elimination of
National Endowment for the Arts,
National Endowment for the Humanities;
Inter-American Foundation;
Institute for Museum and Library Sciences in 2026 budget. #NEH #NEA

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Aadarsh Padiyath, Casey Fiesler, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06193

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Computing ethics education aims to develop students' critical reflection and agency. We need validated ways to measure whether our efforts succeed. Through two survey administrations (N=474, N=464) with computing students and professionals, we provide evidence for the validity of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index. Our psychometric analyses demonstrate distinct dimensions of ethical development and show strong reliability and construct validity. Participants who completed com…

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting for Space Operations
Krzysztof Kotowski, Ramez Shendy, Jakub Nalepa, Przemys{\l}aw Biecek, Piotr Wilczy\'nski, Agata Kaczmarek, Dawid P{\l}udowski, Artur Janicki, Evridiki Ntagiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01849

Trojan Horse Hunt in Time Series Forecasting for Space Operations
This competition hosted on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/trojan-horse-hunt-in-space) is the first part of a series of follow-up competitions and hackathons related to the "Assurance for Space Domain AI Applications" project funded by the European Space Agency (https://assurance-ai.space-codev.org/). The competition idea is based on one of the real-life AI security threats identified within the project -- the adversarial poisoning of continuously fine-tuned satellite telemetry fore…

Spain records highest May temperature on record #Spain

Spain records highest May temperature on record
Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday.

The way we talk about housing in public discourse is so broken. How does kicking unhoused people out onto the street "deal with" homelessness in any sense other than a murderous one?
"Montreal's public transit agency is lifting a temporary rule against loitering in the Metro — a controversial measure established in mid-March to help deal with rising social problems in the network, including homelessness."

"As the West debates red lines and escalation risks, Ukraine’s spies are doing what no NATO agency dared: hunting Russian war criminals across three continents, from Moscow’s suburbs to Mali’s deserts — the very territories where Russia projected power unopposed for years.
Russia’s failed blitzkrieg birthed something far more dangerous than Ukrainian resistance — Ukrainian revenge."
CIA forged Ukraine's spy service into Mossad for Putin— now it can't make them stop
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/08/cia-forged-ukraines-broken-spy-service-into-mossad-for-putin-now-it-cant-make-them-stop/

Should the Raiders Add a Right Tackle? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-alex-cappa-george-fant-dallas-cowboys-pete-carroll

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

2025 NFL free agency tracker: Ravens extend WR Rashod Bateman on three-year deal https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an "innovation exemption" to boost onchain product creation and support Trump's vision of a US crypto hub (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-mulls-crypto-ex…

"The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed budget cuts and talk of consolidation." #NRCS (h/t Tom Gill)

Nick Chubb free agency: Houston Texans emerge as 'one to watch' for veteran RB, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick-ch

The cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency has been upgraded from ‘security incident’ to a widespread attack which has led to the agency taking down it’s online services and investigating with the NCSC. Here are five reasons you should be concerned about the breach.
https://www.…

Five reasons you should be more worried than you probably are about the Legal Aid data breach
The cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency has been upgraded from ‘security incident’ to a widespread attack which has led to the agency taking down ...

Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin (Benedict Smith/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p43#a250603p43

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries.
They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment
have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.
https://grist.org/clima…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan
A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

"FEMA had not been told and, in fact, they learned the news from those news stories. They didn't get official word from the White House about that disaster declaration for more than four days, which meant the money that was supposed to go out the door to those hard-hit communities was delayed."
'Quite a statement': CNN host stunned by Trump 'trauma' inflicted on key agency - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-trump-administration-concerns-mount/

Asante Samuel Jr. is still free, but hardly meets Cowboys' criteria https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/09/asante-samuel-jr-cowboys-free-agency/84121717007/

UK cyber agency pushes for 'strategic policy agenda' as government efforts stall https://therecord.media/ncsc-pushes-uk-government-create-strategic-cyber-policy-agenda

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

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Examining Algorithmic Curation on Social Media: An Empirical Audit of Reddit's r/popular Feed
Platforms are increasingly relying on algorithms to curate the content within users' social media feeds. However, the growing prominence of proprietary, algorithmically curated feeds has concealed what factors influence the presentation of content on social media feeds and how that presentation affects user behavior. This lack of transparency can be detrimental to users, from reducing users' agency over their content consumption to the propagation of misinformation and toxic content. To uncover…

Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers -- finally: Grading the move, and whether he's actually an upgrade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44442475/2025-nfl-free-agency-grades-quarterback-aaron-rodgers-pittsbur…

Alabama football legend Amari Cooper predicted to find new NFL home with ascending AFC squad https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/alabama/news/alabama-footba…

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-set-to-blast-35-km-river-rock-formation-for-new-amazon-shipping-route/

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route
The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará state to enable boats to pass during the dry season, as part of wider efforts to build a massive waterway for commodities.

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
Fangyuan Li, Yijing Li, Luke Edward Rogerson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06011

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
With rising demand for emergency services, the London Ambulance Service, LAS, and the London Fire Brigade, LFB, face growing challenges in resource coordination. This study investigates the temporal and spatial similarities in their service demands to assess potential for routine cross-agency collaboration. Time series analysis revealed aligned demand peaks in summer, on Fridays, during daytime hours, and were highly sensitive to high temperature weather conditions. Bivariate mapping and Moran …

Cowboys have dark-horse candidate for starting running back spot https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-have-dark-horse-candidate-starting-running-back-miles-sanders

A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

WATCH: Raiders RB Raheem Mostert Following Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-raheem-mostert-pete-carroll-isaiah-pola-mao

CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE https://www.404media.co/cbp-confirms-it-is-flying-predator-drones-above-los-angeles-to-support-ice/

Aaron Rodgers to sign with Steelers, attend minicamp next week: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6231027/2025/06/05/aaron-rodgers-steelers-nfl-free-agency/

Cowboys invested less than $4 million, but may have grabbed key contributor in free agency https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/03/cowboys-robert-jones-free-agency-value/84015385007/

Raiders Sign 88-Game Starter to $4 Million Contract in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/germaine-pratt-contract-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Germaine Pratt signs with Raiders instantly becoming their highest plaid linebacker https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/11/raiders-sign-lb-germaine-pratt-benga…

Cowboys named top free agency fit for former NFC East rival after OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-named-top-free-agency-fit-former-nfc-east-rival-after-otas

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Why Chris Godwin spurned Patriots' $30 million offer, signed for less money with Buccaneers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-chr

Cowboys named top free agency fit for former NFC East rival after OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-named-top-free-agency-fit-former-nfc-east-rival-after-otas

US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government https://therecord.media/defense-intelligence-agency-it-specialist-suspected-leak-foreign-government

Las Vegas Raiders Connected to Star Linebacker Who Just Hit Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/connected-to-free-agent-star-linebacker/?adt_ei=[email]

Russell Wilson cites 'superstar' Malik Nabers as reason behind New York Giants free agency signing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/russell

Vikings linked to former $4.4 million Raiders starting defender in NFL free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/vikings-linked-former-44-million-r…

Cowboys RB Receives Grim Outlook https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-denver-broncos-rico-dowdle/?adt_ei=[email]

Graham's Defense Gives Raiders' Defense a Chance to Shine https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/elandon-roberts-las-vegas-patrick-graham-robert-spillane

Former Bengals $20 million playoff hero predicted to bolster Raiders' defense https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-bengals-20-million-playoff-her…

Raiders' Jakobi Meyers announces his hopes for 2026 NFL team with free agency looming https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-jakobi-meyers-anno…